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...Allied troops holding one-fourth of the embattled town of Cassino, main obstacle on the Fifth Army's road to Rome, silently pulled back 1,000 yards; the Germans did not know...
...purpose a gorgeous production like "Cover Girl" serves in time of war. Its beautiful costuming and fancy scenery must have caused an outlay of cash sufficient to make up a day's losses over Berlin. The manpower involved in its production might well have turned the tide at the Cassino hotel, and the celluloid expended enabled the RAF to take better pictures at the invasion coast...
...faced, 23-year-old redhead from Pittsburgh, is one of seven brothers, all in service. He has seen 70 days of active combat in Italy, suffered no wound worse than a scraped nose and some minor cuts on his hands from shell fragments.* He fought at Salerno, San Pietro, Cassino...
...Polifka was grounded. "He fought like a stuck pig to dice Cassino," said an officer on Lieut. General Ira Eaker's staff in Italy, "but the General just wouldn't let him go on another mission...
Most important, the line can usually be laid faster than an embattled army can advance. Last week in mountainous southern Italy, where regular fuel transport would have bogged down, Army pipeline engineers were impatiently waiting for Cassino to be taken so they could extend their system northward...